Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis

Laffey, Mark; Weldes, Jutta

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2478.2008.00515.x

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“…Either you are with us or with the terrorists" (Bush, 2001: 20 September). Whilst this 'black and white' binary between an 'us' and a 'them' represents a particularly strong characteristic of this Bush administration, it is important to acknowledge these 'othering' identity constructions are deeply embedded in previous US national and foreign policies (Campbell 1993;Connolly 1993;Doty 1993;Laffey and Weldes 2008). Reagan's characterisation of the Soviet Union as an 'Evil Empire' is just one example.…”

Section: The Bush Doctrine a Global War On Terrorism And Pre-emptivementioning

confidence: 99%

Security Matters: The Reconstruction of the ‘New World Order’ in American Foreign Policy

Donnelly¹

2014

Journal of Global Faultlines

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This article explores the construction and reconstruction of 'new world orders' as a dominant narrative framework in American foreign policies. While several scholars have made productive inroads to investigating how this terminology has shaped US security agendas and actions, it is suggested that how we conceptualise the language of the 'new world order' is in need of constant updating. Adopting a critical constructivist framework, this article examines how competing conceptions of 'new world orders' have been framed in the past and present. It is argued that by sketching the continual reconstructions of 'new world orders' it becomes possible to examine how 'old' and 'new' world orders interact, overlap and even collide to create fault lines in national and international affairs. One of the biggest intellectual challenges advanced here is to reaffirm the tensions and complexity behind an axiomatic part of the lexicon of US security matters.

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Section: The Bush Doctrine a Global War On Terrorism And Pre-emptivementioning

confidence: 99%

Security Matters: The Reconstruction of the ‘New World Order’ in American Foreign Policy

Donnelly¹

2014

Journal of Global Faultlines

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“…The missile crisis of Cuba (commonly known as the Cuban Missile Crisis) (CMC) of 1962 remained the major event of history which brings Washington and Moscow to the brink of an Atomic war between the two nuclear power countries. It was the "the most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen" (Laffey & Weldes, 2008). The crisis marked the unique place in the history of superpower relations during the cold war period.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Did the Tripartite Relationship Among the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba Lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Complicate Efforts to Resolve the Crisis?

Sanghro

Chandio

Soomro

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The Washington and Moscow relations deteriorated culminated to the worst during 1962, on the issue of missiles which is commonly known as the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC) in history. The crisis culminated to the brink of nuclear war between both superpowers. It can be said that it was the part of the Cold War Doctrine in which Cuba played a vital role. It was the head of the Cuba, Mr Fidel Castro who instigated this event which culminated to the brink of the war (nuclear) between the USA and the United Soviets Socialist Republic (USSR). The USSR aim in engaging in the CMC had multi-purposes. The US believed that it would be simple to remove Mr Castro from the political power through various means. However, all the US efforts to remove Castro from the Cuban government failed utterly. Fidel Castro's popularity became more apparent when he sided with the Soviets Union. His government challenged the US and brought the Soviet Union close to pressurise Washington to get a good political deal. This paper, therefore, is designed to understand the political situation of the three countries and their political leadership role in averting the nuclear disaster in the region. Further, it is investigated that to what extent the installation of the Nuclear Missiles in Cuba succumbed to the political disturbance in Washington.

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“…As Barkawi and Laffey (2006: 334-335) state, 'in terms of spatial assumptions, what is most evident about these very conventional and widely accepted periodisations is that world politics is taken to be happening almost exclusively in Europe, or latterly in the Northern hemisphere' , which also means that when the Third World does come into the story, 'it is derivative of European developments and driven by great power competition and diffusion of European ideas and institutions' . The periodisations themselves, and how specific periods -such as the Cuban Missile Crisis -are characterised, also work to leave out stories that do not have Europe as their central subject (Laffey and Weldes 2008). The story of 'the international' automatically excludes 'events' that do not ascribe to the categories and language through which the 'international' is made intelligible.…”

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Enacting the International/Reproducing Eurocentrism

Çapan

2017

Contexto int.

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This article focuses on the way in which Eurocentric conceptualisations of the 'international' are reproduced in different geopolitical contexts. Even though the Eurocentrism of International Relations has received growing attention, it has predominantly been concerned with unearthing the Eurocentrism of the 'centre' , overlooking its varied manifestations in other geopolitical contexts. The article seeks to contribute to discussions about Eurocentrism by examining how different conceptualisations of the international are at work at a particular moment, and how these conceptualisations continue to reproduce Eurocentrism. It will focus on the way in which Eurocentric designations of spatial and temporal hierarchies were reproduced in the context of Turkey through a reading of how the 'Gezi Park protests' of 2013 and 'Turkey' itself were written into the story of the international.

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Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cited by 30 publications

References 60 publications

Security Matters: The Reconstruction of the ‘New World Order’ in American Foreign Policy

Security Matters: The Reconstruction of the ‘New World Order’ in American Foreign Policy

How Did the Tripartite Relationship Among the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba Lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Complicate Efforts to Resolve the Crisis?

Enacting the International/Reproducing Eurocentrism

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